Installing RSPython

$ wget http://www.omegahat.org/RSPython/RSPython_0.5-1.tar.gz

Then install RSPython in R:

# R CMD INSTALL --clean RSPython_0.5-1.tar.gz

This command, executed as the root user has then installed the
required files into /usr/lib/R/library/RSPython. To
communicate where the files are installed to Python we need to set up
three environment variables (a Debian package would probably set this
up so that these extra environment variables are not required), and
then run Python and try out some RSPython calls: